Bob g bivvied in Glen Lochay on the friday night to check out the stars and I met him in Balquidder in the morning. As we walked up we could see stuart d and roger above us.
The flying was thermic and active but none of the thermals were going very high and we all tried jumping spurs to make our way east with varying success. I tried slope landing on the 2nd spur to out-fox a sink cycle but was in such deep heather it was hard to launch again.
My 2nd go got me another 2 spurs along to Braes of Balquidder where i packed up and walked up for 45 minutes for the best flying of the day exploring the huge west facing bowl for a while before i felt guilty about chasing the huge herds of red deer (several groups of over a hundred) around the hill and left them in peace and glided down to land beside my car which the others had driven down to the Rob Roy bar.
Others had fun (and took some nice photos too) in Aberfoyle about 30k to the SW of where we were
Playing about - 4th October 2009
A fun day out at Bishop on Sunday with gusty wave in the morning giving a good excuse for some sunbathing in the lee of a gorse bush but calmer conditions and nice soaring in the afternoon. Highlight of the day was a shot on terry's 17sqm Icaro Nikita 2 which is capable of infinity tumbles in the right hands. I contented myself with some ground skim soaring and some wingovers but the tiny wing plus super tippy acro harness meant i was very wary of them going too big...
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